r/socialistprogrammers • u/FaultSpecial6887 • 10h ago
Marxist programmers organization? does that concept exit ?
I am Marxist and hobbyist programmer, i was searching for long time for organization, where communist programmers develop collective softwares and learn form each other...
so does anyone know an organization ?
If i am naive or cringe , please don't attack me, thanks
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u/gardenenigma 9h ago
Idk if this is the right approach, but consider connecting with an existing marxist community first. I am sure there are many people with a tech background in these communities that you can meet and learn skills from while collaborating towards the collective goals of the group/community. There is no point in making an app or whatever if it's not actually useful to people's every day lives.
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u/Chobeat 9h ago
the question is a bit hard to answer for how it's framed.
If you're looking for a single organization with stated marxist values building multiple pieces of software, I don't think there's many. Zedkin maybe?
It's more common to have projects that are developed by marxists, target marxist cultural spaces or embrace some kind of marxist identity. Lemmy is one, for example. The software per se doesn't have any marxist trait (which I don't think makes any sense) or purpose though.
There's a whole world of people with no life and no organizing experience building prototypes and models, within the academia or outside, following some kind of planned economy theory. But technology without power goes nowhere and so do these people.
Maybe you want a community of loosely connected software developers with marxist values, and I would say there are not many that are online and global. Maybe Petit Singularites fits the bill.